German movies can be both entertaining and serious. That seems to be the theme for the 2014 Festival of German Cinema in China, which is being presented jointly by Goethe-Institut and German Films in Beijing, Chengdu, Hangzhou and Shenzhen through Nov 29.
For a movie that's more paint by numbers than Picasso, Penguins of Madagascar begins with something completely unexpected: a Werner Herzog voice-over.
Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian province, is striving to revive its ancient glory and become a hub of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.
With characters like Sherlock Holmes, Julian Assange and Stephen Hawking, Benedict Cumberbatch has accumulated a filmography littered with high IQs.
For nearly three decades, Austrian-born Christoph Waltz was a jobbing actor in Europe. He finally came to Hollywood in 2009, and in the next four years he won two Oscars.
Birdman, a dark comedy about show business, took flight on Tuesday with a leading six nominations for the 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards.
British TV productions took three trophies Monday night at the 42nd International Emmy Awards, including best actor for Stephen Dillane and best drama for the thriller Utopia.
As Christmas nears, British TV screens are filled with heart-warming tales of lonely penguins, family reunions and homesick soldiers in an attempt to get customers to part with their cash.
So far playing a recast character has worked to Billy Miller's advantage.
As earthlings broadcast signals to other planets in hopes of contacting extraterrestrial life, Chinese science-fiction writer Liu Cixin has made first contact with the English-speaking world with his Three-Body trilogy - and the response has been positive.
Mark Owen, a pseudonym for former US Navy SEAL team member Matt Bissonnette, caused a stir with No Easy Day, his firsthand account of a mission in Pakistan in 2011 that resulted in Osama bin Laden's death. Owen didn't get the book cleared by the Defense Department before publication.
The deathbed of a rural funeral singer serves as the stage of Jia Pingwa's newest novel.
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